Charles Kenny
Books, Papers and Articles
Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
Category: F. Globalization
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My FP column: developing countries should ensure their trade policies maximize the variety of goods available to citizens. That means lowering barriers on goods they don't produce. Its a policy even import substituting industrializers can get behind.
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Why the growing triumph of democracy doesn't necessarily mean the end of history (yet). For Foreign Policy.
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The latest Optimist column for Foreign Policy suggests the Peace Corps should move towards a grant-making model akin to the Fulbright program. The extended version, The Peace Corps in a Smaller World: A New Model for the Next 50 Years, is now at CGD.
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Mickey Mouse, Villain is a short article for the print edition of Foreign Policy. It argues that Disney's pursuit of ever longer copyright terms is against American and global interests.
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Invasion of the Alien Cattle is the latest column for FP. The column notes the massive influx of cows into the US and makes the point that immigrant bovines just aren’t a big source of demand for the output of other cows –young calves and the victims of enforced bovine cannibalism aside. So every foreign cow is taking…
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Afro-Pessimism is Misplaced is a comment piece for for This is Africa. It based on some of the arguments from Getting Better which, just in case you were wondering, you can pre-order here…
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This review of Linda Polman's The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong With Humanitarian Aid? was published in the November/December Washington Monthly. It's an under-researched polemic by a brave author on an interesting subject.
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Best Decade Ever is in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy. It argues that the "Naughty Aughties" (pls. blame editors :-)) have been the finest ten years in history.
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Bomb Scare was published in the May issue of Foreign Policy. It suggests that Malthusianism has been and remains wrong, worldwide. It is based on the arguments from Is Anwhere Stuck in a Malthusian Trap?, which has been revised and published in the May edition of Kyklos (Vol. 63, no. 2). I spoke about the article on KERA's Think.
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What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It? was issued as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper in September, 2006. There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation Department…
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